For years, we have had terminology dividing diabetes into subgroups: there's "type 1" and "type 2" diabetes (type 1 is autoimmune diabetes with positive antibodies, typically showing up in children or teenagers, previously called IDDM or childhood-onset diabetes) (type 2 is insulin-resistant diabetes showing up in obese adults, whose antibody... Read more
As of today, Google has about 4,710,000 webpages discussing "health care reform," but none for "sickness care financing reform." One example, a headline in today's news: "Obama Hosts Health Care Reform Meeting at White House." The story starts "U.S. President Barack Obama is launching an effort to reform the nation's health care system with a... Read more
The journal Diabetes Care has just published a discussion of results from the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, titled The Many Faces of Diabetes in AmericanYouth: Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Five Race and Ethnic Populations. It's a series of articles, one for each race/ethnic group.
The authors describe the study's objective as "to... Read more
DEFEND (Durable response therapy Evaluation For Early or New-onset type 1 Diabetes) is another of those ultra-cute acronyms for a research study. The study is evaluating a drug called otelixizumab to see if it helps folks with type 1 diabetes. Details of the study can be found both at the DEFEND website (defendagainstdiabetes.com) and at... Read more
I've written previously about bariatric surgery (stomach surgery for obese people) for people with diabetes (PWD). Now there's a new twist: a recent news report indicates that Medicare has apparently approved reimbursement for morbidly obese Medicare beneficiaries who have type 2 diabetes.
But there are caveats:
First, the patient must have... Read more
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